Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Court of Appeal for Ontario Decision – Fontaine v. Canada (Attorney General) (Residential Schools Records)
Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Tableau de tri du Ministère de l’Environnement, du Climat et du Développement durable
NARA – Senior Agency Official for Records Management 2020 Annual Report: Various Organizations
National Nuclear Security Administration: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/doe-nnsa-saorm-2020.pdf
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/bgsf-saorm-2020.pdf
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: http://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/agency/odni-saorm-2020.pdf
University of Sydney Library (Australia) – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Protocols
De la communauté / From the community
Archival Community Response to “A Consultation on how to Implement an Extended General Term of Copyright Protection in Canada”
Canadian Federation of Library Associations and Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Joint Response to Consultation on Copyright Term Extension
Michael Geist – Registration for Extension: My Submission to the Copyright Term Extension Consultation
Howard Knopf – My Response to Consultation on Canadian Copyright Term Extension
Unesco – Indicators for Sustainable Information Preservation (Public Consultation)
International Federation of Television Archives – Covid-19 as a Driver for Change in Audiovisual Archives
Mailbag: a Stable Package for Email in Multiple Formats – Design Documents (for Comments)
Educopia Institute – Vision in Formation: Articulating your Community’s Purpose: Facilitator’s Guide
Joint Position Statement on “Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter”
Publications
Archives, vol. 49, no. 1-2 (2020)
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 73, no. 1 (2021)
Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 47, no. 1 (2021)
The Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta Chronicle, vol. 23, no. 1 (2021)
Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 17, no. 4 (2021)
Book – Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory
Book – Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender, and the Archive
Book – Information Technology for Librarians and Information Professionals
Book – Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons
http://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/law/e-commerce-law/governing-privacy-knowledge-commons
Book – Heal your Ancestors to Heal your Life: the Transformative Power of Genealogical Regression
Book – Russell Lee: a Photographer’s Life and Legacy
Book – Kill it with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
Book – Transmedia Frictions: the Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities
Book – Python Natural Language Processing Cookbook: Over 50 Recipes to Understand, Analyze, and Generate Different Texts to Implement Language Processing Tasks
Book – Data: New Trajectories in Law
Livre – Archives militaires : mode d’emploi (troisième édition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives Association of Ontario – Archives Awareness Week 2021: Ask an Archivist
April 5-8, 2021
Archives of Ontario – Our Film Favourites: Staff Picks from the Vaults
April 8, 2021
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Katz Memorial Lecture: We Are Tiger Dragon People
April 8, 2021
Société franco-ontarienne du patrimoine et de l’histoire d’Orléans – Matinées des archives
9, 16 et 23 avril, 2021
Archives audiovisuelles de la littérature
14-16 avril 2021
Just, Temperate, and Brave: the Importance of Evidence, and Evidence Keepers, in Chaotic Times (by Laura Millar)
April 15, 2021
GovInfo Day
April 30, 2021
Journées d’étude sur les archives judiciaires
3-6 mai 2021
Archives Respond: Reframe, Regear, Reset
April 14 – May 4, 2021
Reducing the Costs & Mitigating the Risks of eDiscovery through Better Information Governance
April 14, 2021
Developing Identifiers for Heritage Collections
April 21, 2021
Digital Initiatives Symposium
April 26, 2021
Archiving the Black Web National Forum
April 29-30, 2021
Archives and Utopias: 18th annual German Graduate Symposium
May 8, 2021
Unbroken Records: a Briefing Day on Digital Preservation and EDRMS
May 25, 2021
eArchiving Geospatial Digital Records Preservation Conference
June 1-2, 2021
European Union Open Data Days
November 23-25, 2021
Sur le web / On the web
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation – New Website
Video – As a Matter of Fact: Convincing the World That Archives Matter (with Laura Millar)
Exposition virtuelle du Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – Les manuels scolaires et la communauté minoritaire francophone de l’Ontario
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – New Online Exhibition: Celebrating Black Voices
Coquitlam (British Columbia) Virtual Exhibit – From Accession to Access: the Art of Archival Processing
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) Virtual Exhibit – Close Contact at the Archives
Exposition virtuelle de la Société d’histoire de Drummond – Les grands du sport
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Archival Challenges During Covid-19
Centre de coordination pour l’archivage à long terme de documents électroniques – SIARDexcerpt : recherche et extraction d’enregistrements dans un fichier SIARD (Version 1.0)
Texas State Library and Archives Commission Video – Achieving Compliance
Video – Lotico: Metadata for RDF Statements: the RDF-star Approach
Podcast – Collecting and Protecting Australia’s Memories (with David Fricker, Director-General of the National Archives of Australia)
Material Memory Podcast – Heritage Has a History
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Government of Canada launches public engagement to hear from Canadians on access to information
Library and Archives Canada – Inuit of the 1975 Canadian $2 bill
How is Library and Archives Canada Preparing for the Next Census Release?
Association of Canadian Archivists – Lucidea’s LAMs Database Guides Users to Millions of Dollars in Grants
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan remembers a mother and daughter who dedicated their lives to service
Northwest Territories can do a lot more to replace shuttered law library
BAnQ – Une revue musicale en joual au Théâtre du Rideau Vert
BAnQ – Les hommes-mouches au Québec : de la facilité à la mort
BAnQ – Capsules vidéo historiques: les archives judiciaires de Trois-Rivières à l’honneur
La Cinémathèque québécoise poursuit son plan de numérisation
Quebec – A first in Canada: Class action over loss of personal information dismissed on the merits
University of Saskatchewan historians want your Covid-19 pandemic experiences for archive project
University of Guelph – Learn about Scottish tourism through historical ephemera
Ryerson University acquires Francis Bedford Research Collection
Université du Québec à Montréal – Les archives de Claude Jutra toujours indisponibles
Tracing McGill University’s founding documents: the hunt for the 1821 Charter
McGill’s responses to Anti-Black Racism: New web archiving project goes live
A Retrospective with the Archives Unleashed Project
Halifax professor using 3D modelling to recreate Nova Scotia historic sites
Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, Bishop Farrell Library & Archives – Strength in Community
Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives – Highlights of 2020
Les archives visuelles du Soleil léguées à la Ville de Québec
Toronto Public Library – Laura Secord (and Chocolate): Historical Books, Photos, Paintings and Ads from Our Special Collections
Big Bang Theory opening sequence features 136-year-old Regina photo
Saanich (British Columbia) looks back on more than 100 years of stand-out staff in honour of women’s history month
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Reporting on Alta Lake
Histoire et archives Laurentides – Exposition virtuelle sur la Rolland
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – Quoi garder aux Îles : guide pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine archivistique
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Nicolet : une rivière aux multiples appellations
Société historique Pierre-de-Saurel – L’eau de Pâques et sa bénédiction printanière
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – Exploring Archives: the Quirky, Creepy, and Mystifying: County Council’s Barbershop Quartet
Colours make a splash in new exhibit at Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ontario)
Retired École secondaire catholique régionale de Hawkesbury (Ontario) teacher’s genealogy books have documented the history of six area families
Rare collection of historical Arctic photographs digitized
Putting new life into Newfoundland and Labrador history
Sauvegarder son patrimoine et ses données
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Les historiens réclament l’ouverture des archives
http://www.elwatan.com/edition/actualite/les-historiens-reclament-louverture-des-archives-25-03-2021
We have to protect our unique identities, preserve our unique cultures and our artifacts: owner of first private museum in Ethiopia
Mali and Unesco to receive a symbolic euro in token reparation for the heritage of Timbuktu
South Africa – From campus cleaner to master of University of Cape Town’s administrative historical records
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Tales of the Revenue Cutter Service and True Crime from the Collector of Customs at Boston
NARA – Counting Down Until the Release of the 1950 Census
NARA – A Symbol of Spring: the Cherry Blossoms of Washington, D.C.
Stay in the loop with Library of Congress Labs experiment combining crowdsourcing and machine learning
Library of Congress – Zitkála-Šá: on Creativity, Copyright, and Cultural Empowerment
National Library of Medicine – One Year of Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, and Anticipating New Challenges
White House Alters Official Transcript to Cover for Stunning Biden Gaffe
Alabama Department of Archives and History digitizes records of Scottsboro Boys
Vermont History Day and the Vermont Historical Society
The Maine Memory Network
Wisconsin – Bill would require legislators and their staff to stop deleting public records
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – The Bucketing Strategy as a Precautionary Solution
Small rebellions: Arizona State University Zine Collection shines light on creative activism
University of Texas Austin’s Briscoe Center for American History Acquires Jacques Lowe Photographic Archive
The University of Chicago was just gifted the largest private collection of antique Haggadahs. Here are a few of them.
Historical Photographs of Cesar Chavez Available through University of California Merced Library
University of California Los Angeles researchers digitize massive collection of folk medicine
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – The Digital Sixties: Bridging Generations and Scholarship in Online Archives: Part 2
University of Maine – Online collection documents activism by women’s organizations in Maine
Auburn University researchers work to preserve the history of Selma’s Bloody Sunday
Students, Shippensburg University archives work to document pandemic
How to Catalog Pandemic History
An Online Museum Shows Life During Wartime
George Lucas’s Museum Has Acquired an Archive Tracing the Creation of Judy Baca’s Great Wall, One of the Biggest Murals in the World
New San Francisco Symphony Archive Reveals Program Books of a Century Ago
Ford Foundation – Mitigating Risk and Increasing Transparency, Securely and Globally
Queer Heritage South Launches Digital Museum
Society of American Archivists – Change is Good: Navigating Wikidata as a Controlled Descriptive Vocabulary
Jeanie Fisher, Reference Archivist, Seattle Municipal Archives, Seattle – A Real Sense of Discovery
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Modern analysis of rock art: machine learning opens new doors in archaeology
New Zealand – Partnership to protect and conserve taonga celebrated
Japan – The 29th Meeting of the Committee for the Promotion of the Declassification of Diplomatic Records
Amitabh Bachchan and India’s battle to preserve its film heritage
India – Archiving the nostalgia of Kolkata’s single-screen theatres
Pakistan – Body to ensure implementation of Right to Information Act
Europe / Europa
Putting Europe’s shared heritage at the heart of the European Green Deal
Sparc Europe – Let’s Align International and National Copyright Open Access Policy Action
Russia blocks military archives in further effort to distort the truth about World War II
The Archives of the Republic of Slovenia closed for the public
http://www.gov.si/en/news/2021-03-30-the-archives-of-the-republic-of-slovenia-closed-for-the-public/
Using rare archival films, Ukrainian director forces viewers to face Babyn Yar
Germany – President of the Federal Archives Receives Honorary Professorship from the University of Mannheim
Letters found in an attic reveal eerie similarities between Adolf Hitler and his father
The Alinari Foundation: the Agreement with the Italian Ministry of Culture denies Open Access
Dans le laboratoire d’Umberto Eco
Belgique – La numérisation et l’ouverture à la recherche de l’état civil : un arrêté royal tant attendu. Quelles en sont les implications ?
Louvre museum makes its entire collection available online
Table ronde française sur les métadonnées de nouvelle génération: le défi consiste à gérer de concert de multiples échelles
Building a photograph collection at the National Gallery of Ireland
University College Dublin – Navigating work through Zoom séances
University of Ulster explores how artificial intelligence can clip the time it takes to search archive video
National Library of Scotland – Struggles for Liberty: African American Revolutionaries in the Atlantic World
UK – Legal challenge seeks to stop ministers sending disappearing messages
UK Parliamentary Archives – John Wilkes, Parliament and the freedom of the press 1771-2021
UK National Archives – Making the UK Government Social Media Archive even better
UK National Archives – Sir Robert Walpole: Britain’s first Prime Minister
UK National Archives – Matthew De Renzi: Digging into the sources
UK National Archives – A parting as of brothers: Bangladesh at 50
Behind the scenes at the British Library: Amber Perrier, Community Engagement Officer
Tomayto, Tomahto: Identifying Azerbaijani Manuscripts in the British Library Collections
British Library – An Alternative to the Suez Canal?
National Gallery creates its first show designed for mobile phones
Loughborough University – Do researchers know what Digital Preservation is?
University of Warwick – Shooting at a moving target
Digital Preservation at the Library of Birmingham: a journey down the bitstream
Cracking the Case of London’s Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves
Old maps found in North Shields Georgian townhouse renovation
How using sheepskin for legal papers may have prevented fraud
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Winston Churchill in Palestine: 100 Years On
Israel’s National Library Highlights World’s Oldest, Rarest Passover Haggadot
Israeli Ministries Fail to Archive Government Files as Mandated by Law
Kuwait receives tonnes of national archives from Iraq
International
OCLC to convene a diverse group to Reimagine Descriptive Workflows in libraries, archives
The stack: an introduction to the WARC file
This is a huge digital archive of electronic culture
The Importance of Archival Description